In First Bite, acclaimed food historian Bee Wilson delves deep into the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists, and nutritionists to reveal that our food habits are shaped by family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love. We do not come into the world with an innate sense
First bite: how we learn to eat
β Scribed by Lee, Annabel;Wilson,Bee
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers;Fourth Estate
- Year
- 2015;2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 415
- Edition
- Di 1 ban;UK Ed
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
We are not born knowing what to eat. We all have to learn it as children sitting expectantly at a table. For our diets to change, we need to relearn the food experiences that first shaped us. Eating is not something we are born knowing how to do. We learn it as children, sitting at the kitchen table, being fed. It is there that we develop our passions and our disgusts, our ideas about which flavours go with what and how big a portion is. Growing up, we define ourselves through our tastes. 'THE CHILD AT THE TABLE: Where our Food Habits Start & How They Can Change' draws on current research from both neuroscience and psychology, and the author's experience parenting three children and visiting numerous school canteens, as well as talking to dieticians, biologists and consumer researchers, to look at where our food habits come from; and what it would really take to change them for the better. The food we consume over the course of a day a week a lifetime depends on countless...
β¦ Subjects
Food habits;Nutrition;Nutrition -- Popular works
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